Retreats

An opportunity for retreat work at Clear Sky Centre: Take advantage of private meditation cabins to learn to better understand your own and thus others' minds and hearts. To use others' realization to further your own, and vice versa, see the group retreats elsewhere in this schedule. Participating in "awakening in action" through living and working in awakening community is another option, as part of the Clear Sky Experience.

For most of us, the ego is locked in a life-and-death struggle with the shadow. We’re continually pulled back and forth between the excitement of exploration on the one hand, and the fear of abandonment and rejection on the other. What is the ‘Hero’s Journey’? The Hero’s Journey is the courageous path the hero/ine undertakes to assimilate ego and shadow, tapping into inner, previously unknown gifts to triumph over lifelong challenges. The results blossom as the harmonious union of light and dark that characterizes a truly healthy, integrated human being. Exquisitely humbled by the process, we offer all that we have learned to benefit all beings in our lives. https://youtu.be/GsYHR9sKIHc Kinmount Weekend Retreat Details This retreat will help you gain greater self-confidence and a deeper appreciation of everyday life by embarking on the Hero’s Journey. The weekend will include teachings, exercises and guided meditations to shepherd us through the fearless, meditative and experiential path of the Hero’s Journey. Location: Dharma Centre of Canada, Kinmount, ON Time: Fri 20th (evening) - Sun 22nd, November 2015 Cost: $400 (for food and accommodation), plus dana for the teacher The Dharma Centre of Canada can be reached at: [email protected] The Teacher Achariya Doug Duncan Sensei is a Canadian-born Dharma teacher. Known for his compassionate insight, remarkable sense of humor, and life-changing advice, Doug Sensei leads retreats and courses designed to guide individuals to attain their fullest potential as human beings. He has been teaching at centres around the world for more than 20 years and is the […]

Calm and Clear Retreat at Maitreya House in the UK Inviting Insight, Bliss & Wisdom into our lives Fri. April 1 – Fri. April 8 Would you like to feel more calm and clear? How do you imagine it would affect your quality of life? Calm and Clear is a kind of meditation method, and it applies to the day-to-day. Although it’s a text and practice rooted in Vajrayana Buddhism, the applications can apply just as well in the office, at home, in recreation and even in our personal and professional relationships. Imagine bringing a sense of calmness and clarity to all of those places! This has been called “analytical meditation” because it focuses on insight, our mind’s incredible ability to understand. Its partner, sammatha, is also known as bliss meditation; it’s considered the great healer, because when bliss is present, it supersedes all mental and physical anguish. These are not empty promises: as we all know, bliss can be interrupted and difficult to regain. Therefore, we need to understand the nature of what interrupts the bliss, which means developing more insight. We also learn the supporting conditions of mind that can re-establish the bliss, and reveal a kind of bliss we didn’t recognize before. What kind of bliss is that? You may be asking. This is the bliss of a calm, clear, awake luminosity of consciousness, which generates both bliss and insight. Combined, we call them wisdom:  Wisdom is generated when bliss conjoins with clarity and focuses on a […]

Immerse yourself in this long weekend course of Awakening in Action at beautiful Clear Sky Centre this June. Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat will present a thorough, engaged and joyful path for applying the paramis in everything you do. In community we will embrace 'learning together' and the strength of diversity so we can all reach our fullest potentials.

How can we become more self-aware and/or make spiritual progress when we spend the majority of our waking hours at a job, or figuring out how to make my business successful?
These are questions every contemporary practitioner asks. We believe that for many people, one solution lies in the path of Karma Yoga: yoga means “union through discipline,” and karma means “action.” We call it Awakening Through Action.

Make a profound start to 2017 with this two week meditation retreat at Clear Sky Centre. This retreat covers the transformative teachings of Body, Speech and Mind as first presented by Namgyal Rinpoche.

Join Doug & Catherine Sensei and the Dharma Europe community for this exciting and beneficial retreat on Womb, Karma and Transcendence. The retreat will be held just outside of Frankfurt, Germany (Seidenbuch (Odw)).